Add your favorites... Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being. -Kate Millett Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God’s infinite mercy, a last resort. -P.J. O’Rourke Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it. -Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. -Mao Zedong (1893–1976) So much emphasis has been placed upon the false that the significance of the true has been obscured and politics has come to convey the meaning of crafty and cunning selfishness, instead of candid and sincere service. -Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of all times are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones. -Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990) Politics is the art of the possible. -Otto Von Bismarck (1815–1898) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -John Kenneth Galbraith The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm, the democratic family is the best training ground for life in a democracy. -Letty Cottin Pogrebi Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them. -Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) Politics is the enemy of the imagination. -Ian McEwan Politics actually is a realm akin to art insofar as, like art, it occupies a creatively mediating position between spirit and life, the idea and reality. -Thomas Mann (1875–1955) Politics is just like show business, you have a hell of an opening, coast for a while and then have a hell of a close. -Ronald Reagan Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon). -Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978) Politics is a choice of enemas. You’re gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do. -George V. Higgins
I always liked another political quote, made by a former Belgian Politician: "I have no real enemies except for my political friends"
http://www.quotationspage.com/ssubjects/politicians/ Under every stone lurks a politician. Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Thesmophoriazusae, 410 B.C. You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Knights, 424 B.C. Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. Bob Edwards I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970) Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970) Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. Henry Kissinger (1923 - ) An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. Simon Cameron (1799 - 1889)
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=politics Usage Note: Politics, although plural in form, takes a singular verb when used to refer to the art or science of governing or to political science.